Posted on 06/27/2016 11:45:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Paleontologists are in the final stages of extracting the skeleton of a huge mammoth discovered buried two metres underneath a busy street in the Mexican city Tultepec.
New images of the excavation site have revealed the sheer size of the prehistoric animal, which experts believe died between 12,000 and 14,000 years ago in what is now the city's suburb of San Antonio Xahuento.
With a metre-wide skull and tusks spanning more than ten feet, the skeleton belongs to Mammuthus Columbi, a North American mammoth which expects believe grew sixteen feet high and weighed up to 10 tonnes.
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Bring that dude over the border. We’ll register him to vote and give him delicious food and excellent drink!
Don’ he look lik’ a American?
Would this be close to be pre-Clovis?
Wow, with photos now you can give it a CA driver’s license and register it to vote democrat.
We’re gonna need a bigger wall.
Did the mammoth still have its hubcaps?
Don’ he look lik’ a American?
Republican, even....
How do they know the mammoth was Mexican and not an illegal alien from north of the border?
I think they were removed during the Age of Jive.
So, when will he be across the border getting freebies?
How did it taste? One mammoth would have provided meat for many tacos. Except that they hadn’t developed corn (maize) as we know it yet, so what would they have done for taco shells?
The pic is upside down, that’s clearly a mega-jackalope.
Mammoths were supposedly suited for colder climates. Could it have been a mastodon? 19” 41’ 06” North latitude is way south of the expected range of Mammoths in the ice age.
The wholly mammoth was adapted to cold climates. Columbian mammoths lived throughout North America.
I forgot about the two varieties of mammoth.
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